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The word
جودي

judi

Judy
Arabicجودي
Arabizijudi
TranslationJudy
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
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Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جودي reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
02
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
03
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
Arabizi

What does judi mean in Arabizi?

judi is how you write جودي in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “Judy”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.

New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.

How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 4 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

It sits in the the alphabet lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.

Practice typing this word →
Sequence
  1. 01[ج
  2. 02,و
  3. 03]د
  4. 04Dي
Composedجودي
جودي
Practice

Type جودي until your fingers know it.

Or practice it inside the full The alphabet session, one of sixteen sets in our free Arabic typing practice tool.

Practice just judiStart the The alphabet set